· Private foundation
The Jb and Mary Lou Sandlin Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of THE JB AND MARY LOU SANDLIN FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $41k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE MOVIE INSTITUTE INC | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT CENTER | $15,000 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD CATHOLIC COMMUNITY | $11,132 |
| SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| THE COUNSELING FOR THE FUTURE FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| BROADWAY DALLAS | $2,500 |
| SKY RANCH FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| GRAPE COLLEYVILLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| AMY'S WISH WITH WINGS | $2,000 |
| COME READ WITH ME | $2,000 |
| KELLER SERVICES CHARITIES | $1,500 |
| NORTH TEXAS SNAP (SPECIAL NEEDS ASSISTANCE PARTNERS) | $1,000 |
| DALLAS FOUNDATION - STOMP OUT CANCER | $1,000 |
| DALLAS AREA PARKINSONISM SOCIETY | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $123k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CECOMMUNITY ENRICHMENT CENTER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $112k · revenue +20%
- MIMOVIE INSTITUTE3× · 2022–2024 · $24k · revenue +445%
- BDBroadway Dallas Inc4× · 2020–2024 · $12k · revenue +150%
Funded once
- SJST JUDEone grant, 2021 · $15k
- MGMESA GLOBALone grant, 2021 · $10k
- THTRINITY HABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2020 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…
To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.
See Schedule OFort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels provides comprehensive services, including Meals on Wheels, congregate meals, transportation, case management, health screenings, information and referral services, recreation, and more. Our…
To close the hunger gap in north texas by working through over 500 feeding partners to provide access to nutritious food and address the root causes of hunger.
Provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
Support law enforcement and promote public safety awareness and crime prevention in Fort Worth.
Established in 1934, vna helps older adults live with dignity and independence at home by providing in-home care, food and friendship for the ill, hungry, and homebound.
Organization provides services to senior citizens and the disabled, primarily through home-delivered meals and congregate meals.
Help members of our communities who are facing hunger, homelessness, and other urgent needs improve their quality of life and achieve self-sufficiency.
Our mission is to provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare. We support the health and well-being of seriously ill or injured children receiving treatment in the…
The james bruner-tk ranch, inc. operates personal care facilities for mentally challenged adults, licensed by the texas department of human services. the primary goal of tk ranch is to provide a safe and decent living environment for the…
Uniting volunteers to prepare meals that get delivered to the food insecure
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Nocona Rural Volunteer Fire Department Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 71 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MOVIE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Broadway Dallas Inc ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds DALLAS AREA PARKINSON SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds KIDS MATTER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Counseling for the Future Foundation ↗
- Who funds Tarrant Area Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Come Read With Me ↗
- Who funds Van Cliburn Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SKY RANCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Me Squared Cancer Foundation ↗
- Who funds BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH HOPE CENTER THE HOPE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE GATEHOUSE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds COLLEYVILLE HERITAGE HIGH SCHOOL PANTERA BOOSTER CLUB ↗
- Who funds AMY'S WISH WITH WINGS ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Celanese Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Southlake Chapter National Charity League Inc · Greater Keller Womens Club Foundation Inc · Southlake Women's Club Foundation · Norman M Kronick Fort Worth Foundation · The Graham and Carolyn Holloway Family Foundation · Sid W Richardson Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Jb and Mary Lou Sandlin Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.